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Hala’s wreaking havoc all across the galaxy and only the Guardians can stop her. There’s only one issue, the Guardians broke up. Can Starlord get the gang back together and stop Hala?

Any true Guardians fan knows that the answer to the last question is yes. I’m sure you also remember the death that broke the Guardians up in the last episode. Turns out that the writers didn’t go through with it, but I think that we can all figure that out. I’m not going to give much away but I will tell you that two of the Guardians are miserable. After all they’ve been through; I can’t really blame them. This time, they’re actually upset about events in their life that matter. The final Guardian, Groot, gets his time to shine in a flashback about how the Guardians met.

It’s similar to the movie with a few humorous moments that makes it the Guardians of the Galaxy. That’s what I love about this franchise; the writers know how to blend the perfect amount of darkness and light that makes Guardians of the Galaxy shine. It’s something Batman Forever failed at miserably. You also get a scene where you can listen to Starlord’s awesome music.

The game play is typical of any Telltales game, with you picking dialogue choices for Starlord and, at one point, Groot. During action scenes, you have to press the right key at the right time. Let me tell you, those scenes really sneak up on you.

At one point, you get to assign a task to each Guardian during the final mission to take out Hala.

Rocket came up with the plan, so you can bet that one of these tasks is useless but still funny. There’s another scene where Mantis takes you inside Peter’s head and you can determine Peter’s thoughts and relationships with the other guardians. It’s fun and heartwarming at the same time. When you’re finished, you can compare your choices to those other players made and get a sneak preview of what’s to come in season 2.

This game is addictive and amusing. I give it 8 out of 10, a brilliant finale for Guardians of the Galaxy Season 1.

After making your choice about the Eternity Forge, Hala buries you underground. Meanwhile, the Guardians find themselves at odds about your decision. Can you stop Hala while repairing the damaged relationships among the Guardians of the Galaxy?

I’m sure you remember that decision you had to make in the last episode that I talked about being the strong point of the story. Now be prepared to find out that whatever decision you made doesn’t matter in the slightest. If you destroy the Eternity Forge, Hala sucks up all of its energy and uses it to bring her race back. So all that time you spent mulling over what to do with the Eternity Forge is useless. Even Rocket takes the time to point that out to you, in case you didn’t come to that conclusion yourself. This is what we in the story business like to call lazy writing. To top it all off, everyone’s so busy fighting each other the Guardians forget that the issue is that Hala is out there committing mass murder. Unfortunately, you don’t get a dialogue choice to remind them of this either. Say what you want about the Final Frontier, which is a guilty pleasure for me, but the characters had enough sense to realize that they need to focus on the major problem. Let me explain that, in the movie, Sybok takes over the Enterprise and uses it to cross a deadly barrier to find God, or Sha Ka Ree. Spock talks about how Sha Ka Ree is not real and Kirk tells him that the present issue is a mad man took over his ship and could possibly destroy it in some mad quest. When Final Frontier beats you in a story aspect, you really need to re-think your writing.

The story does have its strong points, such as Drax’s flashback. I have to admit, I’m not really a big fan of Drax. However, his flashback is one of the most well done I’ve seen and it doesn’t take away from the story. It’s a short and yet memorable scene where Drax talks to his daughter before she has to go away for training.

Your choices determine how Drax’s daughter thinks of him. It also leads to scene where Drax makes the ultimate sacrifice to save the Guardians in a scene that’s almost a tearjerker. I have to admit, it took me by surprise. While the scene is sad, the episode is not without its funny moments. Some of the humor can get juvenile and, at one point, the game makes an unnecessary fart joke. However, when a giant worm eats you in a plot point similar to Star Wars, you have to make the decision about whether you want the creature to vomit you out or poop you out. I went with the former and, in this case, I’m glad the writers realized how silly this sounded. One of the aspects of Guardians of the Galaxy is that the writers know when to take the plot seriously and when to embrace the silly. The CW show, Supernatural, also uses this writing technique.

However, this doesn’t mean that you can ignore the story’s weaknesses. In the second paragraph, I talked about how everyone forgets about the threat Hala imposes on the universe. This doesn’t change by the end where, depending on how you handle Drax, people are mad at you. It gets so bad that people leave the group, starting with Mantis who can’t take having to deal with everyone’s extreme emotions. Never mind that the Eternity Forge is her responsibility and still causing havoc around the galaxy because of Hala. Then, depending on whether you let Drax sacrifice himself or not, different people get mad at you and leave the group. They just momentarily forget that Hala is committing mass murder across the galaxy because of what they did. No, it’s all about them; how they can’t cope with all of the drama in their lives. I understand that your main characters need to have flaws and that no one can agree with each other all the time. However, the moment when your heroic group breaks up is not supposed to be when the world or, in this case galaxy, is in serious danger. These characters act like spoiled children who throw a tantrum the minute things don’t go their way.

The game play is typical Telltale with you making dialogue choices for whatever character you currently play. However, your choices make no difference except to determine who stays with you when the Guardians break up. There is one impact in the game about whether you get to have a sandworm companion but that’s about it.

The game comes with its own quick time events that are addictive as always without sneaking up on you. You also get to explore the inside of the giant worm in order to collect engines to fix your ship and talk to the Guardians while you do so.

The game is disappointing yet fun. I give it 6 out of 10; not the best story but still a nice little diversion.

This is an unusual post because it’s not really a review as much as a recommendation. This game is one of my favorite Choices games due to having a great story, great characters and a huge mystery that’s up to you to solve. Your choices determine your relationships and if you can gather enough clues to solve the mystery of the island you’re stranded on. However, I warn you, completing the game 100% means you have to make in-app purchases.

I’ve made a decision to post more on my blog, but only post reviews once a week. From now on, I’ll be posting what I make in dollmakers, news about video games or board games, people’s Let’s Play videos and recommendations for interactive stories you can play on your phone. You can even give me dollmaker pictures you made, recommend Let’s Plays I can post and so on. Just make sure that what you suggest I post or recommend has something to do with either video or board gaming.

After the Linden Shades incident, the reporter’s ready for a long deserved vacation. When opportunity knocks on her door in the form of a chance to catch a gentleman thief known as The Fox, she puts her vacation plans on hold.

This is the sequel to Linden Shades, if you haven’t guessed. In this one, it’s about confronting an Italian Robin Hood and finding out if he’s really redeemed.

All I’ll say about the plot is that it takes an unexpected turn.

The game play is your typical hidden object. You travel from scene to scene collecting items for your inventory. Some items will require you to take part in a hidden object scene.

Use these items at the correct locations in order to advance throughout the story. If you’re stuck use a hint.

This game is addictive and intriguing. I give it 7 out of 10; a worthy sequel to Linden Shades.

Ever dreamed of being in the ocean and gazing at all of the sea life? Now you can, just put on your Playstation VR, pop in VR worlds and pick the ocean. Find yourself hypnotized by all of the fish, stingrays and jellyfish. If you’re lucky, you’ll find treasure in the ocean’s depths, but watch out for the shark.

This world has three modes of play and only one of them tells a story. It’s the one where you meet the shark. You play the role of a cage diver looking for hidden treasure and finding a shark along the way. There’s no explanation on what exactly the treasure is, except for a few hints that it could be alien. I’m wondering if it’s a reference to another available world on the game. As for the shark, it just keeps attacking you with no explanation.

The game play in this world consists of looking around with your VR headset. Let me tell you that you will find yourself surrounded by the ocean and you can even exit your cage if you wish to.

It’s like being in a Star Trek holodeck program, except the only senses the VR affects are sight and sound. I’ll admit that I was afraid of meeting the shark but, thanks to my mom wanting to see it, I finally played that all the way through. Thankfully, the shark is more startling than it is scary, as if you’re on a virtual roller coaster. The other two play throughs are just looking at sea life without the story and the shark.

It’s perfect for relaxing if you’ve had a stressful day.

This game is soothing but can also startle you. I give it 8 out of 10; any ocean fanatic will love this game.

After deleting Sam’s phone, you find another one that belongs to a girl named Laura. Can you discover who is she and help her?

While the premise is the same as the last game, the plot couldn’t be more different. I should tell you that I’m about to give major spoilers to the plot, so proceed with caution. Unlike Sam, Laura is an adult and doesn’t struggle with who she is. However, Laura is not without problems and hers involve her boyfriend, Ben. I’m just going to tell you that Laura’s in an abusive relationship. Ben has her send her GPS coordinates to him regularly. He goes through her phone on a daily basis. He even deleted her birth control reminders off her phone so she’s forget to take her pill. This is just the tip of the iceberg. His worst offense is sending a sexy video Laura made for her ex-boyfriend to her co-workers and putting the blame on her ex-boyfriend. This also leaves Laura open to sexual harassment from her co-workers, none of them believing that she didn’t send this video. Unfortunately, there’s truth in fiction with this situation. During the High School Musical craze, the lead actress, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, faced slut shaming due to someone posting naked pictures of her on the internet. No one considered that she might have taken the photos for her boyfriend and someone posted them without permission, making her the violated party. As in the case of many people in abusive relationships, Laura’s too blinded by love to see what’s going on. Then finds herself craving the moments when Ben’s nice to her, insisting that he can change. However, the game does have unfortunate implications. This time, I’m not just talking about the game play. When Laura attends a seminar for people in abusive relationships, she mentions that everyone at the meeting is a woman. Even now, people fail to see that men can also be the victim in an abusive relationship.

As I said earlier, the game play comes with unfortunate implications. Let me put it this way, it’s another story about respecting someone’s rights as a human being, while violating their rights as a human being. You can see the contradiction. Only, this time, you don’t send messages or post pictures pretending to be Laura. I’ll admit that the game play is intriguing with you having to search through her phone and use deductive reasoning to figure out her passwords. However, you can easily change the plot of how you got the phone to make it less invasive. You could have the story be about Laura reporting Ben to the police for domestic abuse and handing her phone over to a cop to present as evidence. It would erase the issue of violating someone’s privacy and it’s believable.

This game is fun but uncomfortable. I give it 7 out of 10; a great game but needs to be better thought out.

When high school students come to Victoria’s shop for prom dresses, it causes Angela to flashback to her own disastrous high school affair. Now she wants to make up for it and that’s by having her own high school reunion. Can Angela make up for her own terrible prom, or will the reunion be every bit as disastrous?

Anyone who’s even glanced at this game on Gamehouse’s website knows that Angela will end up in prison. The spoiler is how she gets there, which I will discuss. Let me say that it’s not entirely Angela’s fault, ‘not entirely’ being the key words. Angela gets herself into this predicament by wanting to throw a reunion so badly that she uses the old rundown school building to have the party. The building is a safety hazard as Angela’s sister, Emily, points out. However, another fellow student, Janet, claims that her father gave them permission to have their reunion in this very building. Janet is Angela’s former rival for Prom Queen and current rival for Reunion Queen. Angela’s hatred for Janet is so great that she tries to cancel the reunion because of not wanting Janet to ruin her good time. It gets so bad that Angela carries an idiot ball by telling Janet that she’s canceling the reunion. You can bet that all this will do is encourage Janet to take over and that’s exactly what she does.

I’ll admit that high school is a subject I know very little about. My parents had me home schooled after I graduated from middle school in order to spare me from what they call ‘their terrible high school experience.’ Neither one of them have ever been to their reunions because they claim that, when you do, it’s back to the old pecking order. The people who attend are either reliving their glory days or trying to rub their success in the face of everyone who picked on them. The only people who attend and leave happy are the former. In the case of Angela and Janet, I said that their prom blew up in their face. However, I didn’t explain how this happened. I did tell you that they both competed for the title of Prom Queen. As the alpha bitch of Snuggford High, the students favored Janet as Prom Queen. Angela decided to run against her due to Angela and her friends wanting to become popular in high school. Janet went so far as to manipulate two brothers against each other to ruin Angela, something that backfired on both of them.

Those who follow me remember when I talked about the double standard in the last Fabulous game, which the characters address but the story never fully discusses. Well, this one takes it a step further due to not addressing the double standard in this game. As I said in the last paragraph, Janet played two brothers against each other in order to become Prom Queen. However, what I didn’t explain is that Janet dated the popular brother, Matt, first. Keith, the unpopular brother, would make moves on Janet while she dated Matt. Keith clearly sees Matt as the evil brother and Janet as the sweet victim that he must rescue. However, he doesn’t see Janet as a person as much as a trophy. Keith ingrains himself so deeply in his fantasy that he refuses to acknowledge Janet’s faults, even when Angela points them out. In fact, when Angela comes across Janet’s pregnancy test, Keith sees it after she leaves and assumes that Angela is pregnant with Matt’s baby. However, instead of talking to Angela about it, he reports Matt to the principal to get him expelled. When Angela becomes Prom Queen, reveals to the entire school and reporters that she’s pregnant. Angela is not going to take this lying down and says that Janet’s the pregnant one, which shuts the school down and, in effect, cancels the prom.

It also shows how unobservant Keith is by not recognizing that Angela shows no signs of morning sickness while Janet displays it on a regular basis. As for Matt, they never really delve into his character, but the Principal does claim that Matt gets in trouble with the school. Janet also hints that Matt has a wandering eye, but will always come back to her. They never explore this, so I don’t know if it means that he cheats on Janet or he just flirts around. He does refuse to help Janet with her election, despite expressing how important the Prom Queen election is to her.

Don’t worry, Janet isn’t innocent in this either. As I said, she did play two brothers against each other. However, one wonders how close those brothers really are if they let one girl come between them. Anyway, Matt breaks up with Janet because he’s tired of how selfish she is. When she manipulates Keith against Matt and Angela, pretending that she cares for the latter, Janet proves him right. The years have not changed her as she goes as far as putting her own desires to become Reunion Queen over her daughter, Chloe, wanting to know who her father is.

In the second paragraph, I mentioned that Janet lied about her father giving them permission to use the rundown school building for their reunion. Yet Janet is so desperate to have the glory days a news report ruined, she lies to Angela and her friends. However, in all reality, Angela didn’t exactly listen to Emily about the place being unsafe due to having the exact same desires as Janet. The only difference is that Angela doesn’t have a kid, so she has more freedom to behave irresponsibly. This doesn’t change the fact that Angela and Janet allowed their own desires to blind them to the danger of the building until it falls apart. I can’t even begin to stress how lucky they are that no one died because of their own selfish desires.

I mentioned that Emily makes a cameo in the game. She acts as the voice of reason for Angela, who refuses to listen to her. I’m sure that many of you are aware that Emily is the star of Delicious, and Fabulous is a spinoff starring Angela. Since Emily is the more serious and responsible of the two, her stories have a more calming narrative. Angela, on the other hand, is more wild and crazy. Therefore, her stories have a more wacky narrative. It definitely shows in this story, with a couple of humorous moments. Anyway, some people claim that over the top characters can’t carry their own story and, sometimes, this is true. Anyone who’s watched the Friends spinoff, Joey, knows what I mean. However, House and Sherlock are both over the top, yet are quite capable of carrying their own shows. Despite what many people will tell you, in the writing world, there is no ultimate judge of good and bad. Writing is an art, which is what makes it unique and, if there’s a right way to do it, all stories would be the same and people would get bored. That’s not to say that there’s no wrong way to write because, believe me, there is. As for whether Fabulous is doing well with their over the top main character, I think that they’re somewhat succeeding. Angela is still trying to find her way and, like the last story, she’s making mistakes and learning from them. Some might say that Angela just relearns the same moral she learned in the last game through different events. This is what TV tropes refers to as Aesop amnesia, and believe me when I say it happens in real life. There is a problem with Angela’s temporary love interests, the first being a cop, the second a model and the third one Matt Miller. Though temporary love interests are quite common in fiction, Angela goes through these boys without dating the first one and the second one disappears with no explanation. As for the third one, he does get an explanation in the end with a hint that he might get with Angela later, but I highly doubt it.

The game play is quite similar to many games in the Delicious franchise. You get the required items, deliver them to the customers and check them out at the register. Sometimes, you have to clean up after them and, in this game, you get a bonus at the end of the level for it. Each level comes with a special event and some levels are just extra challenges for you to complete. This game also features endless levels that really serve no purpose. It’s the same with the challenge levels, because you don’t get any diamonds for completing the events. This is also the only game past Emily’s Home Sweet Home where you don’t purchase gifts for any reason. You do get to purchase upgrades for each venue in a style similar to Emily’s Christmas Carol.

You also have to catch the mouse in each level and earn trophies in the form of yearbook photos.

I did find one serious problem with the game play. Believe me when I say that it deserves its own paragraph. You know how Emily and Mary always cook in their games, Cathy always makes crafts, Maggie makes movies and Allison saves lives? Well, Angela’s talent is sewing and, this being a Fabulous game, you’d expect her to be making clothes. Unfortunately, Angela only sews outfits in the first venue. Most of the game is about Angela and, in the second venue, one of her friends preparing food.

This is a serious oversight and undermines the whole point of Angela starring in this game. If you’re going to have most of the game play be about preparing food, you might as well have made this another Delicious game. Hell, with a few tweaks, Emily could’ve been the star of this story with Angela being a side character.

This game is addictive, but pointless. I give it 7 out of 10, a few good moments but doesn’t really feel like an Angela game.

You’ve found a phone that once belonged to a teenage boy named Sam. What kind of person was he and how did he lose his phone? Go through his phone to find out.

In real life, if you find someone’s phone on the ground, don’t go through it. Even if you did, you wouldn’t be able to crack the password. Anyway, you might read the summary and think this must be a boring game. First, I should say that you couldn’t be more wrong. Second, I should also say that I found this game on Gamehouse and it’s a little more controversial than what they usually publish. Spoiler alert, Sam is a bisexual transgender who lives in a conservative town. She has issues with who she is due to close-minded people surrounding her, including her own parents. The story is about the relationships Sam has with her friends while trying to discover who she is. It’s similar to Gone Home about a teenage girl’s struggles with her homosexuality. Considering that the closest Gamehouse Original Stories has to an LGBT character is Francois, who has yet to come out of the plot closet, this is quite a shock. They also deal in stories that are more family friendly. I’m not saying that the LGBT shouldn’t have representation in children’s entertainment, quite the opposite. It’s just that the game also deals with misogyny when they not so subtly hint to a rape attempt. The guy blames the girl for leading him on and then shunning him. What actually happened was that the girl wore a provocative dress, her boyfriend got a little drunk and he forced her to press against him when they danced. She told him no and he got mad. To make a bad situation worse, when she went home to her father and said that a stranger molested her, he told her that, the way she’s dressed, she asked for it. I remember in Elementary School that they had one motivational poster about how you are responsible for you. Ironically, society itself often contradicts this message. This is similar to how bullies say that, if their victims didn’t want people to beat them up, they shouldn’t act different from everyone else. It’s something that Frasier and The Big Bang Theory agree with. In the former, Martin tells Frasier and Niles about when they were children and into the British television series The Avengers to the point of wearing bowler hats. Then says that it’s something they shouldn’t have done because they made themselves a target. In the latter, Penny once claimed that she felt guilty for picking on the geeks in high school and then claims that, if one of the kids didn’t want to get beat up, they shouldn’t have shown up to school wearing a bow tie. While rape and getting beat up might not be on the same level, the point still stands. Frasier and Niles should be able to wear bowler hats if they want to. A boy should be able to go to high school wearing a bow tie without getting beat up. If a girl wants to wear a provocative dress because she looks good in it, she should be able to without having to worry about rape or molestation. This serves to point out how screwed up Sam’s town is and how liberal she is in comparison by telling the girl that it’s not her fault. That’s not the only discrimination you can find in this game. For instance, someone sets fire to an LGBT center and people around Sam, even his own parents, say that it’s a good thing. I’m not sure if I mentioned this in a former review, but I have Aspergers, which is a low-level form of Autism. I was lucky enough to have an understanding mother, but stories such as Silent Voice taught me about the discrimination people like me face. One thing I learned is that parents do murder their autistic children and many people feel sympathy for the parents. The news reporters even treat it as a mercy death rather than talk about how the children could grow up to accomplish so many things. Therefore, I can somewhat relate to what Sam’s going through in my own struggles to accept my Aspergers. However, as someone pointed out in his or her own review, the gameplay does undermine the message.

As I said in the first paragraph, you find Sam’s phone and violate her privacy. It goes much further than that as you scan her text messages and emails to discover her passwords.

You even send emails and pictures to other people pretending to be her. While the detective work makes for intriguing game play, you not only violate Sam’s privacy, but also her rights. I can only think of three people who would do something like this, House, Sherlock and Dean Winchester. All of them would do this to solve a case, though the former two might also do this because they’re a**holes. Apparently, the designer of the game didn’t think that part through. You could’ve easily had this be about a detective solving a murder investigation, or an amnesiac Sam going through his phone to discover who he is. Instead, the only clue I have about what kind of person you play is that they’re a d*ck without any regard for personal space. Just the kind of person I would hate to run into. At least, in Gone Home, you play the role of a young woman coming back from college to an empty home trying to figure out where everyone went. Even she refused to dig too deep by refusing to read her sister’s diary about her first sexual encounter.

This game is addictive and intriguing. I give it 8 out of 10; the game play undermines the story’s message.

After Angela quits her job and leaves her husband, she finds herself competing on a reality show hosted by the one and only fashion designer, Truly. The prize is a chance to become the next big fashion designer. Does Angela have what it takes to win?

Do you remember the cliffhanger at the end of Sweet Revenge where Angela thinks she might be pregnant? Well that gets resolved in the very beginning, she’s not. It makes the whole game and its cliffhanger null and void. The only important events from the first game are that Angela doesn’t work for Yum-Mee anymore and she’s single, giving her all sorts of potential love interests. The first one is the cop who helped her in the first game, who makes a cameo appearance in this one. The second one shows up later in the game. I don’t know if I already talked about this, but I think that the designers had to get rid of Jimmy. If you’re not familiar with the Delicious series, Jimmy is, or was, Angela’s husband first introduced to us in Emily’s True Love. Jimmy functioned in the series as comic relief, Angela’s glorified sugar daddy and a possible connection to the mafia. Now that Angela’s found her own way as a designer, she’s outgrown him. However, if Angela divorced Jimmy in order to pursue younger and more attractive men, it would cast her in a shallow light. Therefore, they had Jimmy cheat and Angela can dump him without looking evil.

The designers went so out of their way to get rid of any connection to Jimmy that they tossed a plot device brought up in the first game out the window. Personally, I feel that, if you drop a bombshell this huge, you need to be prepared to follow it through. Otherwise it’s all for nothing.

The plot line has similarities to the Delicious game, Emily’s Taste of Fame. For those of you who never played it, the game is about Emily getting an offer to host her own cooking show. Along the way, she meets the colorful characters of Snuggford and helps them with their problems. When Emily finally gets on the show, she realizes that the life of a TV star isn’t for her, quits and goes back to her humble life in Snuggford. In this game, Angela gets her chance to be on a reality show and travels all around the world.

Unlike Emily, her sister, Angela loves her life of fame and craves it the way an alcoholic craves liquor. She even forgets to send a text to one of her friends on her birthday in favor of signing autographs for her newfound fans. This illustrates the differences between the two sisters as Emily is more of a homebody who runs her restaurant and is content with her humble small-town life. Angela craves a wilder lifestyle and loves being the center of attention. The tone of their games further drives this point home, as Emily’s games are more along the lines of shows like Modern Family while Angela’s games are more along the lines of How I Met Your Mother.

I’ll admit that I’ve always felt more drawn to Angela rather than Emily due to the former’s nature that is more carefree. However, some of Angela’s behavior in this game is truly disgusting. I understand that the game is trying to illustrate Angela’s corruption by the famous lifestyle. However, the writers never address one issue. Be warned that this paragraph contains spoilers so read with caution. Truly’s show is a sham as she schemes to eliminate each contestant and competes under the alias Lori. She even goes so far as to blackmail one of her models, Eric, into seducing Angela. Eric is, for lack of a better term, Truly’s whore and the game does not portray it for comedy or make light of the situation in any way. I should explain that one of the rules of Truly’s competition is that the designers are not allowed to get involved with models. If Truly finds out about Angela’s relationship with Eric, she has reason to kick her off the show. However, when Angela finds out that Eric is Truly’s boyfriend, she does not question why Eric is unfaithful to her. Later in the game, Truly invites Angela’s friends to come see her. One of them, Jenny, becomes a model for Angela and flirts with Eric at a club. Jenny has no idea that Angela and Eric have a thing and apologizes to Angela when she finds out. At no point in the game does Angela confront Eric about this. Instead, she takes all her anger out on Jenny by stealing her dress and using it to get Eric’s attention. Understandably, Angela’s friends are angry about this and leave but still come through later on when she needs them. As for Truly’s scheme, Angela does get her revenge. This is another illustration about the differences between her and Emily. When someone wrongs Emily, the people she helps throughout her adventure return to help her overcome the one who wronged her and, if possible, tries to make amends with them. When someone wrongs Angela, she takes matters into her own hands by getting revenge in creative ways.

The game play is similar to Delicious with clothes instead of food. Angela makes outfits, jewelry, gets cosmetics for her customers or models, and checks them out. Some of them visit the changing room or, in some levels, get their hair done at the mirror. Angela has to clean up after that for extra points.

Some levels even require an extra activity for Angela to complete and get more points. Each level has their own mouse and, unlike Delicious, offers cleaning bonuses. The layout of the second game is rather different from the first due to Angela not marking each level with her own Facebook posts. I have to admit, I rather missed that aspect. Angela also gets her own pure activity levels throughout the game, though they’re the same in each section. Pick a dress for Angela to design, draw sketches for it, move the box of supplies, collect the supplies and finally sew the dress.

In the second venue, you have to chase the different contestants away from your dress so they don’t sabotage you. Believe me it gets repetitive after awhile. You can also buy upgrades for each venue and even purchase entertainers and checkout clerks. Though you have to buy the latter two every single level, another aspect that’s rather grating.

This game is fun but needs improvement. I give it 6 out of 10, a nice distraction but rather lacking in both storyline and game play.